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...many valid complaints are heard against the shoddy intellectualism which is encouraged by pocket-sized philosophies and "Such a Person Made Easy" books. Flaubert, too, despised this surface learning. In a way then, Bouvard and Pecuchet are victims of circumstances. Even if they had the ability to gain real knowledge of any subject, it would be impossible, Flaubert seems to say, because of the superficial culture of the nineteenth century...
Kinsey assumes too much in using the word "human" in his book titles, Pinard added. Despite the implication that the study is valid for the entire world, Kinsey has interviewed only 6,000 males and 6,000 females in compiling his reports...
...other hand, this third view questions whether the whole idea of a 'future fulfillment' of history is a conception that . . . can be given any intelligible or valid meaning whatsoever. In what sense would the return of Christ in some distant tomorrow fulfill the centuries of history which have already intervened since His First Coming, not to speak of the millennia which may well pass before history ends...
...play is honestly and in spots movingly written. It is also well staged and acted, with Actress Hagen brilliantly right as Grace. Its content is valid; the chief trouble is a kind of clash between form and content. By relying on a naturalistic method, the play comes to need the greater fullness and freedom of the novel. There are too many problems in The Magic - indeed, too many potential problem plays-for it to focus quite right, or reverberate enough on the stage. Thus, for lack of elbow room, the play has Grace, within minutes, faced with the loss...
...Pittsburgh, with good evidence of an increase in antibodies and no bad reactions. Many doctors, especially state and county health officers who must take responsibility for the trials in their areas, argued that 1,000 cases were not enough to prove the safety of the vaccine or give a valid indication of its effectiveness. They suggested advance trials of 10,000 and 50,000 subjects. This would have meant a full year's delay of the large-scale national trials...